FORBEARANCE

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Traducere în limba română

forbearance substantiv

1. (from, of, to do smth.) abţinere, abstinenţă (de la; de a face ceva).

2. răbdare, îngăduinţă, indulgenţă toleranţă;

to show forbearance towards smb. a arăta îngăduinţă faţă de cineva;

forbearance is no acquittance ca s-a amânat nu s-a uitat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

If she is ill I should be sorry to do her injustice; but there are some traits in her character which make it difficult for me to speak of her with the forbearance I could wish.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of personal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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